When you’re packing for any trip, remembering to take the right things is critical. Isn’t i more...

When you’re packing for any trip, remembering to take the right things is critical.

Isn’t it frustrating to get to your destination and learn that you have forgotten something important, like a bathing suit or an umbrella?

An app called PackPoint offers a better way to eliminate the forgotten items travel drama, because it helps you pack based on where you’re going and what you are doing.

You begin by answering a few questions including your gender, destination, number of travel days and what you’re planning to do.

It also checks weather info at your destination and pulls together a suggested packing list based on all those parameters.

Once you generate the list, you simply scroll down and check the items that you want to create your own list, including reminders to take things like mobile chargers, business cards and if it's a business trip, you VPN key-fob.

When you finalize the list, you can share it via e-mail or copy and paste the items to any other program if you want.

PackPoint is available for both iPhone & Android smartphones and it’s free!

That wireless router in your home is your primary defense against many common threats, because more...

That wireless router in your home is your primary defense against many common threats, because it prevents the outside world from gaining access to your computer.

If you haven’t changed the default password on your router, you're exposed to a major security issue that could compromise everything in your home.

I'm not talking about your WiFi password when you want to connect, I’m talking about your administrative credentials that allows anyone to take control of your router.

Every hacker knows the default passwords for every piece of equipment on the internet through sites like http://RouterPasswords.com which can allow them to attack you.

A group of security experts discovered yet another type of attack that uses rigged e-mails that can allow thieves to sneak into your router if the default login credentials are still being used.

Once they're in, there is very little they can’t do because they can change the configuration to allow them to monitor all your activity and grab various passwords for all of your online accounts without you ever knowing it.

This is one of those threats that no security program can protect you from if you happen to click on the malicious link.

The very best way to protect yourself against this threat is to change your default password; if you don’t know how to do it, get some help!

Every one of the major cellular phone companies is engaged in a battle to try to attract your b more...

Every one of the major cellular phone companies is engaged in a battle to try to attract your business with some really agressive offers.

But when it comes to your cellphone service, a great deal doesn’t mean anything if the quality of your service where you live is weak.

So before you decide to hop from one cellular company to another, you should do some homework.

A helpful resource that allows you to see how Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint perform where you live and work is posted at http://rootmetrics.com.

You begin with your city to get a rating of the performance including reliability and speed for data, voice calls and text messages so you can properly evaluate the strengths of each network.

One of the most helpful features of the site is in the CoverageMap section. You can bring up detailed maps of locations where call quality is solid or spotty, where data speeds are slow or fast and whether you can get LTE service where you need it most.

They also have mobile apps that allow you to generate personalized reports as you travel around and add updates to their database.

Google is the most powerful search engine by far when it comes to the Internet, but it also mea more...

Google is the most powerful search engine by far when it comes to the Internet, but it also means that you’re usually going to get millions of search results that usually aren’t relevant.

To help improve the quality of search results, Google offers a large number of what they call 'query operators' and punctuation that can dramatically improve the quality of the information that gets returned.

One of the lesser used 'power tools' is the “range” variable because it can filter results to quickly provide information in a given numerical range.

By just typing two periods (with no spaces) between any two sets of numbers, you are asking Google to do to limit the results to those parameters, which it can do pretty well.

For example, if you are doing a research project for a specific time period, you can enter Russian Revolution 1800..1900 or if you are shopping for a new phone in specific price range, type smartphones $350..$450.

Remember, including the specific format of your numbers (dollars for example) will help to refine your search results even further.

If you know of friends that happen to live in an earthquake zone, you’ve probably seen how soci more...

If you know of friends that happen to live in an earthquake zone, you’ve probably seen how social media explodes whenever even the slightest of tremors is felt.

Well scientists at UC Berkley are trying to harness this crowdsourced information when it comes to detecting earthquakes as they occur.

They have created an Android app smartphones MyShake which leverages the powerful accelerometer in smartphones to help detect earthquakes as soon as they start.

This ‘crowd noise' data from what they are hoping will be a global seismic network of sensors could become a life saving warning system for people that live farther away from the epicenter of the quake in the future.

Anyone you know that lives in an earthquake zone should consider becoming part of this massive people-driven science experiment just by installing the MyShake app on their Android smartphone.

The older we get, the more likely it is that we find ourselves trying to remember a word that c more...

The older we get, the more likely it is that we find ourselves trying to remember a word that conveys what we're trying to say.

When you conceptually know what you're trying to say, but just can’t remember the word that properly expresses your thoughts, there’s a web resource called OneLook Reverse Dictionary that can come to your aid.

It let’s you describe the concept you’re thinking of and returns a list of possible words that are related to your concept.

For example, if you type ‘constant need to travel’, you'll get the word: wanderlust!

You can be very general with terms such as ‘red berries’ or ‘large fish’ which will give you a wide variety of possibilities.

The next time that word is on the tip of your tongue, use the OneLook Reverse Dictionary to help you spit it out!

If you have ever watched a pro athlete studying themselves, you’ll often see that they are usin more...

If you have ever watched a pro athlete studying themselves, you’ll often see that they are using sophisticated technology including slow motion to analyze their moves.

Well that smartphone in your pocket is also a powerful computer and it can become a similar tool using an app called 'Hudl Technique'.

Whether you are an aspiring athlete, parent or coach of a rising superstar, the app will let you breakdown and analyze the motion of everything from a golf swing to a pitching sequence to just about any motion in any sport.

It allows you to add notes and annotations so you can highlight changes you suggest and even share the video with others.

The app also allows you to match up and sync up 2 videos side-by-side for a comparison which allows you to see progress over time or compare to the form of a professional.

The amazing features of this free app are incredible and could help any athlete determined to improve in their sport through an out of body experience.

The web has made it simple to buy and sell just about anything you want through an endless list more...

The web has made it simple to buy and sell just about anything you want through an endless list of websites.

Figuring out the market price for things like cars is pretty easy with sites like KBB.com & Cars.com, but if you’re trying to buy or sell toys, clothing, electronics or lots of other personal item, where do you go?

You can obviously search on popular sites like eBay or Craigslist manually, but there is a much better way.

The next time you need to figure out the best price for something that you want to buy or sell, checkout a resource called Bidvoy.

Bidvoy scours data from millions of transactions on eBay to help determine much more than just the best price to buy or sell.

It can also give you trending data, what the current price is for the item new and will even suggest the best time to buy or sell.

Even if you don't plan to use eBay, the data from one of the most popular online marketplaces is always helpful.

No more second guessing whether you paid too much or listed your item too low or too high for just about anything you want to buy or sell.

Raise your hand if you have ever started cursing at your printer because it just ran out of ink more...

Raise your hand if you have ever started cursing at your printer because it just ran out of ink right in the middle of an important print job!

We have all been in this situation and we also know that printer ink has become one of the most expensive liquids in the planet.

Well, the engineers at Epson have created a line of inkjet printers that may be worth consideration; the EcoTank series.

Instead of incorporating those tiny ink cartridges that are so common in today’s printers, Epson is using large ink reservoirs that can hold the equivalent of twenty to fifty ink cartridges in various models.

It should be enough ink to last most of us at least a year or two and the best part; you get to buy ink in squeeze bottles to refill the tanks when they get low.

You may pay more up-front, but the on-going expense of ink refills is a lot lower because you are buying ink in bulk.

I was in search of an app that would help with one of our household's biggest hassles: grocery more...

I was in search of an app that would help with one of our household's biggest hassles: grocery shopping.

We, of course, have used text messaging forever, but when the list is long, keeping track of what I've picked up already while I’m shopping is a bit of a chore.

If my wife and I were on the same smartphone platform, we could use lots of apps created for this purpose, but since she’s got an iPhone and I’ve got an Android phone, I had to find something for both.

After trying a large group of options, my absolute favorite is an app called Wunderlist, that’s Wonder with a U.

With it, anyone in the family can add or delete entries and now when I’m shopping, I simply tap on each item as I put them in the basket to make them disappear from the list.

Wunderlist is absolutely free and works on iOS, Android, Mac OS, Windows and even Amazon's Kindle Fire, so it is completely versatile.

The app is super simple to use and can be used for more than just simple grocery lists: we use it to track our favorite songs, personal and work projects, 'honey-do' lists and a lot more.

Every once in a while When I'm searching for interesting tech to talk about, I’ll stumble acros more...

Every once in a while When I'm searching for interesting tech to talk about, I’ll stumble across something truly amazing that can really make a difference.

An app called 'Be My Eyes' is just that thing in my recent searches and it is a really cool idea.

A socially focused inventor in Denmark created this amazing app that will allow blind users to connect with those that are sighted when they need help through the video connection.

Sighted volunteers use the app on their end to 'be the eyes' for those with a visual impairment to assist them with small tasks, like explaining what a street sign might say, reading the contents in a can of food or checking the expiration date on a carton of milk.

It is currently only available for iPhone users that would like to help others. The app allows you to volunteer by simply installing it on your smartphone.

As part of the community, you earn points for helping others, which will elevate your level in their system, improving your opportunity to help others.

If you’re a regular user of Microsoft Word, you are probably already familiar with something kn more...

If you’re a regular user of Microsoft Word, you are probably already familiar with something known as 'macros' which can allow you to work with large chunks of text that you use on a regular by assigning time saving keyboard shortcuts.

We are all spending a lot more time on the web creating content, so using shortcuts in your browser can save you a lot of time.

If you are using Google Docs instead of Microsoft Word on a regular basis, checkout the Auto Text Expander add-on for Google Chrome.

It allows you to create shortcuts for long e-mail addresses, long sentences or other chunks of text you often use regularly. You can also create various signatures for various e-mail accounts that let you easily assign with your own custom keystrokes.

For example, use the ‘bizadd' shortcut for your business email address or 'persig’ for when you use a personal signature in a message or just about anything you use on a regular basis.

A great part of this utility is that once you have created a shortcut, it’s available in any text field for virtually everything you use on the Internet.

Check it out here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/auto-text-expander-for-go/iibninhmiggehlcdolcilmhacighjamp

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